Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."
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let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. Go to Quote / Comment
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. Go to Quote / Comment
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb. Go to Quote / Comment
Life in itself Is nothing,... Go to Quote / Comment
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Go to Quote / Comment